Offers a theoretically informed look at the debate about single-sex teaching. Drawing on classroom observations and interviews with teachers and students, this book illustrates the effect of single-sex classrooms on learners and on the versions of subject knowledge made available to them. It is intended for teachers, academics and policy makers. more...

Volume 19 of the May Swenson Poetry Award Series, 2016 Throughout this haunting first collection, Patricia Colleen Murphy shows how familial mental illness, addiction, and grief can render even the most courageous person helpless. With depth of feeling, clarity of voice, and artful conflation of surrealist image and experience, she delivers vivid... more...

Now in ebook format, this is a static, generic epub. This DK ebook will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading. Encourage your child to read. Find out all about Eric and his first football practise. Join him as he finds out how to tackle, dribble, pass, shoot and play for the team! It is a part of a five-level... more...

Introduce your child to a love of reading with this Level 2 DK Reader Discover a love of reading with the bright and colourful, Telling the Time. Tick, tock! Long ago, people told time using the sun or water. Follow a historical timeline and find out how clocks have changed and become more accurate. Level 2 Readers have longer sentences, increased... more...

Encourage a life-long love of reading whilst learning about Bugs and Us. Help your child to read with this Level 1 DK Reader . They will discover all about the lives of creepy crawlies - what they eat, where they live, and how they help humans. DK Readers are part of a five-level highly pictorial reading scheme, with lively illustrations and... more...

Short stories designed to help kids learn how to read and learn to love reading Hope for the Elephants is a Level 2 Reader, perfect for supporting children who are beginning to read alone. These short stories for children have longer sentences and increased vocabulary that develop confidence and build literacy skills. DK Reads proves that good... more...

By examining ideas about learning that transcend typical boundaries, such as school/workplace or home/school, this book emphasies the socially negotiated and embedded nature of meaning-making and how learners learn to use the cognitive tools of their cultural community through participation in social activity. The editors argue that this is the means... more...

Longstanding cultural heritages about the nature of knowledge continue to dominate Western education. Yet the ways of knowing represented through teaching and workplace practices, including assessment, and their relationship to views of learning, are often ignored in debates about learning. This book provides a rich collection of readings that challenge... more...